The Sight

Golding (The Hidden) hits her stride in this unsettling thriller centered on a young woman’s Cassandra-like powers. Faith Harrington, whose family operates and performs in a traveling circus, inherited an unwelcome gift from her great-grandmother Daisy: the ability to foresee someone else’s death. When she was 10, Faith accurately predicted that her brother Tommy would die after falling through the ice covering a frozen lake. Twelve years after that tragedy, Faith has started wearing a patch over one eye in an attempt to limit her abilities. During a confrontation with an arrogant circus patron, she loses her temper and predicts his death by drowning. A video recording of the episode winds up online and Faith is fired from the carnival. As she struggles to support herself and her dying mother, Faith begins exploiting her gift for paying patrons—which works well enough until she has a vision of her own involvement in one of their deaths. Golding imbues the somewhat familiar premise with thoughtful characterizations, painting a convincing portrait of the emotional toll that Faith’s gifts take on her. It’s a memorable and moving trip into the paranormal. Agent: Madeleine Milburn, Madeleine Milburn Agency. (Sept.)